Chapter 7

Chapter 7 starts with the hottest day of the year. Nick, Gatsby, and Jordan all go over the Buchanan’s house. It is fitting that it is the hottest day because this is the day where the tension releases, and the sparks fly. This chapter is the climax of the novel. After Tom gets off the phone with his mistress, Daisy sends him into the other room to make a drink. After he leaves, she kisses Gatsby in front of everyone and declares that she is in love with him. I think she does this to get revenge on Tom somehow. She feels like she is getting back at him.  Her daughter shows up and Gatsby has a problem with it. The daughter makes him realize that she has a rooted life with tom. If she just walked away from it, it would be messy at the least. After a while, they decide to go to the town. They stop by Wilson’s garage to get gas. Myrtle sees Tom in Gatsby’s yellow car. They go to a hotel to decide what to do and that is where all the drama came out. Gatsby waits for Daisy to say to tom that she never loved him. When she does not, he says it. Daisy tell Gatsby he want too much, “I love you now, isn’t that enough”? Daisy runs out and Gatsby follows. They take Gatsby’s car and as the pass Wilson’s garage, Myrtle comes out thinking that it is Tom again. We find out that Myrtle dies and Tom makes sure Wilson knows it was not his car. Gatsby stays the night watching over the house. This shows that his is clinging on to her even though Tom has won and Gatsby never had a chance.